Better get out another golden parachute.

City council often forgets this government is run by the city manager not the elected politicians. Leave the day to day operations to the professionals you hire to run our government. A more hands off approach would probably be beneficial to us all.

Whatever happened to common sense. A predatory bird chooses a downtown location, near ambulances, music festivals, adjacent to a softball field and tennis courts. Do you get it? The bird is urbanized, living in a near dead oak. I too, welcome the bird, and wish her luck with the babies, but politicians and treehuggers move on to a serious issue. This wasn't it.

He did it to Mucko Island and now Moss is here in Naples to spread his vision of the future. As The Great Karnac (aka Johnny Carson) might say to him; "May the great bird of paradise lay a rotten egg in your coffee as he flies over the new parking garage."

Moss likes to move nature and frankly it is he who should be moved (away).

And the way things are going down town, they aren't going to be needing that garage. Just another empty building like the direction 5th ave is going. How dumb is that????

Why should this city and county start caring about the enviroment now? They destroyed the beaches along Gulfshore with their condos. They have ruined Naples Bay with all the crap being flushed out of Port Royal. I say lets get rid of anyone that moved to Naples after 1974, level the place and start over from scratch. The natives didn't ruin Naples, the people that ruined their own towns and moved out to take over MY town are the cause for everything wrong here. And while you "people" are packing up and moving out, take the whiny teachers with you!

As I recall Moss sent in his application on the last possible day. He was selected by this council over all the candidates garnered from an expensive executive search contract. How was the Council so convinced that he was in fact the best candidate? After all, he had almost been fired by the very people he served in Marco Island. Did not an organization called POPs file a petitiion with more than 3 thousand signatures for the purpose of changing the charter so that the people of Marco Island could participate in the City Manager's performance evaluation? The City Council of Naples made their bed, now they must sleep in it or leave town. Moss is King and he knows it!

Beo, you must be one of those ill-informed people that open their mouths before they speak. Moss was not fired and the POP made up of "northern prunes" is now defunct. They had no legal right to do anything but waste paper and time with their complaints. I think we need to add to the list of "people" to run out of town. Let's include stupid people.

Cooper's Hawks....tastes just like chicken!!!

I think we should shut down the Golf Courses too because there are Alligators in the ponds!

psass, this is MY town. Born and raised here. It would take a better class of people than the ones that came here and ruined this county to make me leave. So keep your worthless, ill-informed opinion for the shuffleboard courts.

It just amazes me some of these people even know how to work a keyboard much less how a city is managed.

City council will cry fake tears for their constituents, let Moss take the heat (he's appointed not elected), and Moss will save the taxpayers money by enforcing time sensitive contracts and schedules.

BlueTongueVole (a small rodent from a Hiason novel) You may need to seek some professional help. This therapy doesn't seem to be helping you.

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I love how people that were born somewhere believe they own the ground they walk on.

Here's a radionewsflash for ya,
Even your people came from somewhere else once upon a time and were the low-class you so fondly refer to. Now you are their decendant.

P.S. I was here before 1974 but i'll be leaving soon.

Actually, I am walking on the ground I own right now!

RadioNews, Can't you read? I never said Moss was fired. I'm just saying, Council has no right to complain. Moss had a history and it was not a secret. They hired him for whatever reason. He will rule this city as is his way and they had better get used to it. Don't worry about getting on the bus, I'll be there to wave as you leave town along with the fools that let Moss in.

Radionewsflash!

You're only renting it.

Well my work is done here for today, have fun bashing and blaming while I sit back, read, and laugh!

Radionews - as I read your comments i cast aside most of what your wrote off but at the end you wrote "...take the whiny teachers with you."

What in the world is that about? You must not know anyone that teaches or much less have children that are sent to them to learn. When a person decides to teach they do it for the love of teaching but my gosh don't demean them because they want at least more money to keep up with the cost of living like gasoline - food - rent etc.

You should take back your "whiny" comment and apologize for that remark.

By the way I am not a CCPS teacher or employee - I am a local business person doing my thing and moved here probably before you were born! Moved here because the people were so nice and friendly.

Why didn't they simply move the nest?

Someone should bury a David Ortiz jersey under the new garage

Naples 2008 Oh my, what will we ever do without another parking garage downtown? The traffic, the wait time,all those self important people who will have to walk an extra block to find a parking space when they are downtown. Oh the agony....

This is exactly the reason I don't go downtown anymore. Too much BS garbage like this...

Tell me something Naples2008, is there really that much frigging demand for ANOTHER parking garage downtown?

It is all about money at this point,maybe Moss is getting some kind of kickback from the General contractor, who knows.

Naples 2008, how about this? We as a collective blogging whole will all pitch in and BUY you a nice Greyhound bus ticket back to your respective Northern state.
I will toss in the first intial 5 bucks. Go away back where ever you came from with your BS point of view and attitude.

mule mentalities like yours are the reason animals become endangered and extinct in the first place.

Oh just one more, just one more parking garage, just one more condo, just one more strip mall. Just one more.
Naples used to be so nice without jerkoffs like you, go back to NY, or NJ, or Mich. , where ever your from , PLEASE go back.

I'm in for $5 on the naples2008 ticket

And I'm gonna guess Ohio

There's definetly is a double standard in this town, the birds are there and the noise do not "bother" them , but if you were to ride an atv in the middle of nowhere and there's bird poop, forget about it.

Freedom I think you would be surprised at who will win. If these "two stupid birds" were on the extinct list, the feds and DEP would be all over this like stink on horse feathers and the work would have ceased already, but since these "two stupid birds" as you affectionately refer to them are ONLY endangered and threatened the work on this much,much needed parking garage will continue.
That garage is so much more important then the life of "two stupid birds" huh?

Wildlife is running out of room to make it's habitat due to urbanization and development. They are simply adapting to our world.
What choice do they have?
Why not take a drive down and see them, because in a few years they may be extinct and your children or grandchildren may never see another live one again, except in a textbook or video on TV...

But who cares right? Your children will have a great place to park vs. "two stupid birds".